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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Integrating Proximity to Subjective Sentences for Blog Opinion Retrieval
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Revisiting N-Gram Based Models for Retrieval in Degraded Large Collections
The traditional retrieval models based on term matching are not effective in collections of degraded documents (output of OCR or ASR systems for instance). This paper presents a n...
Javier Parapar, Ana Freire, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Current Developments in Information Retrieval Evaluation
: In the last decade, many evaluation results have been created within the evaluation initiatives like TREC, NTCIR and CLEF. The large amount of data available has led to substanti...
Thomas Mandl
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Evaluation of Text Clustering Algorithms with N-Gram-Based Document Fingerprints
This paper presents a new approach designed to reduce the computational load of the existing clustering algorithms by trimming down the documents size using fingerprinting methods...
Javier Parapar, Alvaro Barreiro
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies
The task in expert finding is to identify members of an organization with relevant expertise on a given topic. In existing expert finding systems, profiles are constructed from sou...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richa...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Using Multiple Query Aspects to Build Test Collections without Human Relevance Judgments
Abstract. Collecting relevance judgments (qrels) is an especially challenging part of building an information retrieval test collection. This paper presents a novel method for crea...
Miles Efron
SDM
2009
SIAM
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Discovery of Geospatial Discriminating Patterns from Remote Sensing Datasets.
Large amounts of remotely sensed data calls for data mining techniques to fully utilize their rich information content. In this paper, we study new means of discovery and summariz...
Wei Ding 0003, Tomasz F. Stepinski, Josue Salazar
SDM
2009
SIAM
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A Hybrid Data Mining Metaheuristic for the p-Median Problem.
Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In t...
Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuch...
SDM
2009
SIAM
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Learning Random-Walk Kernels for Protein Remote Homology Identification and Motif Discovery.
Anthony J. Bonner, Martin Renqiang Min, Rui Kuang,...
SDM
2009
SIAM
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Finding Links and Initiators: A Graph-Reconstruction Problem.
Consider a 0–1 observation matrix M, where rows correspond to entities and columns correspond to signals; a value of 1 (or 0) in cell (i, j) of M indicates that signal j has bee...
Evimaria Terzi, Heikki Mannila